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The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
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Philosopher
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.
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Objects are inorganic and biological values subjects are social and intellectual values.
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If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.
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You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
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The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.
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The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.
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One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.
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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
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The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
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For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
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Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.
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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?
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Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
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One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
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Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.
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Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
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Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists would say. The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things.
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